House Republicans haven’t been terribly successful at many things this year. They struggled to keep the government open and to keep the United States from defaulting on its debt. They’ve even struggled at times on basic votes to keep the chamber functioning. But they have been very good at one thing: regicide.
On Friday, Republicans dethroned Jim Jordan as their designated Speaker, making him the third party leader to be ousted this month. First, there was Kevin McCarthy, who required 15 different ballots to even be elected Speaker and was removed from office by a right-wing rebellion at the beginning of October. Then, after a majority of Republicans voted to make McCarthy’s No. 2, Steve Scalise, his successor, a number of Republicans announced that they, too, would torpedo his candidacy and back Jordan instead. Finally, once Republicans finally turned to Jordan as their candidate, the largest rebellion yet blocked him from becoming Speaker. After losing three successive votes on the floor, the firebrand lost an internal vote to keep his position as Speaker designate on Friday.
The Republicans started an ill-advised conflict without an exit strategy? Who could’ve seen that coming!
Surprisingly (and I think this is the problem), none of them.
The ones who voted against McCarthy’s ouster might have seen this coming. (Though plenty just wanted to keep the shitty status quo that was keeping Ukraine unfunded).
I was really nervous that the Dems fucked up in voting him out, and that we’d end up with a worse speaker (like Jordan), but been pleasantly relieved by the holdouts who seem to want a slightly less insane speaker.
They’ve even struggled at times on basic votes to keep the chamber functioning.
You seem to be assuming that proper functioning was their goal. They were sent there to tear it all down, which is precisely what they did. Never forget that they play by an entirely different set of rules.
They didn’t care before, but now they have a new conflict in Israel. They tied the government’s shoelaces together at just the moment they needed it to function so they can help kill brown people and get their god to start the rapture (who is apparently too helpless to do it himself).
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They do love to run their mouths
You know when magas have been promising another civil war, I didn’t predict it was going to be amongst themselves like this. But they did warn us it was coming.
Republicans, being hoisted: “wtf, that’s MY petard!”
Have we ever had a government shutdown during a general election?
With how clearly this lays at the feet of the gop, how bad will this make them suffer if the government isn’t open during the election? What happens to the election even?
The moment they aired the clip of Gym telling the reporter, “The American people don’t want us to work with the democrats” I laughed my motherfucking ass off. No, Gym. We want you to go away and some of you to go to jail for a long time because you broke your oath to the constitution and attempted to end it.
The House GOP is only 50.8%. It’s barely a majority. In the Senate when it’s 50/50 they read a compromise.
The media just needs to start reporting that it’s not effectively a majority and maybe this would begin peeling the resolve of a handful of blue state reps to support Jeffries.
Can’t we just move on without them? They’re bad for America anyways.
Unfortunately no, not until we vote enough democrats in
I always wondered, is it still a legitimate democracy of there are only two parties?
Yes? What kinda question is that?
I love watching their in-fighting and emasculating downvoting of each other. Of course, there are so many low cards in that hand - there’s none among them really fit to hold office, let alone be considered real human beings. I’m loving this disintegration of America and watching it sink into its own morass of lowly ignorance.
I’m loving this disintegration of America
I’m not, we’ve got shit to do, like aid to Ukraine. It’s funny, yes, but we need a functional government.
Why the fuck is the the Ukraine Americas problem again?
They don’t want it to end. It’s a scam. This is what Rs want.
politics is ALWAYS TRASH its like red team go, no fuck you blue team go, have a pair of balls and realize they are playing you like a fiddle, the only answer is the rare as fuck middle ground and no one since ross perot even tried, 3% isnt gonna do it and you see now why the red team blue team strategy has survived so long, people are stupid and want to pick a side before even realizing what that side stands for, blue team is all about fucking normal people for profit and sticking in trendy gay black men wherever they think they can get the most political leverage from inserting them in that role, red team is all about being an asshole to anyone not on their “side” and pretending to care about the masses all while passing shitty bills that only make the rich get richer, wake the fuck up america you been geeting played like a pu nk bitch the whole time the minute you picked a “side” its all the same side punk , and you wanna know the fucked up part, im a veteran for usa, i still do not stand behing the political fuckery going on and MOST DO NOT, open your eyes and read or talk to people from different states and regions, if you live die and only exist in one area you have zero right to judge another
I used to think this way, in part bc there’s an aspect of this that is obviously true - conservatives and liberals from many states are not all that far apart. However, I do think we’ve crossed over into dangerous territory here, to the point where politics are not “merely” shitty as usual, but actually ends. It’s like the difference between people who as they get older feel back pain, vs. outright dying. That is normal too I suppose, though it is our duty to be as diligent as possible to delay that eventual outcome for as long as possible.
I keep thinking like, if the question is “what is 1+1?”, then Democrats will say -100000, then give contracts to the corps that bribed them, and while in the past Republicans might have done similarly, now they will pull out a gun and shoot you in the head (as their way of answering the question).
Thank you for your service. Indeed we all need to struggle as best we can to open our eyes to what is going on, bc it’s not pretty. This nation that you tried to serve is hurting.
